It usually presents a table/graph showing this information. Press CTRL+E to stop the data collection. Watching the HDD thrash away, I checked the "Disk" tab under the Resource Monitor" (on the Task Manager) which showed the HDD activity as originating from "Norton360.exe". Regarding the Norton Backup; Click here to Register a free account now!

Windows 10 Constant Hard Drive Activity

Unexplained disk activity turns out to be fairly easy to identify with the right tools. Yes I've cold booted the computer several times since it began happening.The computer is running completely normal now. All Rights Reserved Tom's Hardware Guide ™ Ad choices Jump to content Sign In Create Account Search Advanced Search section: This topic Forums Members Help Files Calendar View New

TsVk! Hard Drive Constantly Running Windows 7 Over the past couple of days I have uninstalled AVG Free virus scanner and installed Avast as I thought it was something to do with AVG as when I disabled it geekapprovedFeb 2, 2012, 7:53 PM Ok I'm not familiar with checking the event viewer. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/543277/constant-hard-drive-activity-computer-very-slow/ My XP didn't seem to do that all the time. • Well, first we need to know what's accessing the disk.

This will take quite a while. What Is The Post Routine Description For Beep 2? Here's the interesting part: Here you can see that when I took this snapshot the most active file was "OBJECTS.DATA", a file used by Windows itself, followed by a World of Dunno how I didn't find it after all this time. I will go back to the Soluto website and see if any help is available.

Skip the Disk Check. Process Monitor, a free tool from Microsoft, can be used to find out exactly what's happening on your machine, including which programs are starting. Family and loved ones will always be a priority in my daily life. this content General Discussion since new hard drive, computer is very slowHello everyone. :) So my computer's hard drive fried just a few months ago.

Subscribed! Hard Drive Light Stays On And System Slow Error: (08/09/2014 10:52:45 AM) (Source: Service Control Manager) (User: ) Description: The iPod Service service terminated unexpectedly. The most common was Teatimer and many antivirus suites.Bob Flag Permalink This was helpful (0) Collapse - What's My Computer Doing?

All of the suggestions are appreciated. If so it might be possible that feature is running erratically and thrashing your HDD. Related 0Hard Drive that was used before not detected or accessible in Windows 73How do I access my old XP hard drive from my new Windows 7 system & hard drive?1Windows have a peek at these guys Even better, Process Monitor includes a couple of summary tools that do some of that analysis for you.

What do you think?Bob Flag Permalink This was helpful (0) Collapse - Understand Who? Report the output from the cmd window once it finishes. Proffitt Forum moderator / November 25, 2013 4:56 AM PST In reply to: That's huge. If successful in using RKill...don't reboot the computer before trying again to use MBAM.

port 5900. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics...you are all stardust." ― Lawrence M. working on the other downloads now Cheers Rkill 2.6.7 by Lawrence Abrams (Grinler) http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ Copyright 2008-2014 BleepingComputer.com More Information about Rkill can be found at this link: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic308364.html Program HELP solved Computer randomly shutting down in the middle of some CPU and GPU activity (viewing videos, gaming) solved Computer starts up, no BIOS POST, no monitor activity, case fans are

Resident Shield (RS) is monitoring the drive and thus shows as "in-use" when you try to disconect.